Canada Builds Roquefort Type Cheese Industry
The Chateau Cheese Company in Ottawa has unlocked blue cheese production after studying Roquefort methods. Canadian makers, aided by Danish imports and Canadian science, replicate cave aging, mould inoculation, humidity controlled rooms, and meticulous curing to yield a growing blue cheese export and domestic supply.
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Amsterdam
Detroit
Shefield
Chateau Cheese Company
Borden Company, Ltd
Blufort
Labarge
Andris P. Kolding
Denmark
Canada
France
Chateau
Kolding
R.c.af
Will
Ottawa
Mr. Labarge
Thomas L. Kennedy
Ontario
Ontario Agricultural College
Guelph
Col. Kennedy
Roquefort
Quebec
W. H. Sproule
C.A.C
Stanislas Chagnon
St. Hyacinthe
Biufort
Eddie Labarge
You
The Man on the Land
City people complain of being busy yet few know what busy means in farming life. The piece argues the dictionary should define busy as the farmer tending Spring crops and performing all farm chores without assistance.
Lucky find yields diamond from chicken crop
A woman found a diamond in a chicken’s crop after losing it weeks earlier while keeping birds at a farm about 50 miles northwest. She later sold all but one chicken, then killed the lone bird and retrieved the gem.
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Good Manager From Philadelphia Leaves Thrift Legacy
After the death of wife Sara, 37 years of marriage to Charles Cooey, a Philadelphia laundry driver, revealed her thrift. She saved 25547.33 while living on his 25 weekly pay, buying four debt free homes and several Model T cars, funding two trips to Ireland.
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Philadelphia
Charles Cooey
Sara
Ireland
Benjamin Franklin
Sara Cooey
New York Sun
Rooibos Tea Industry Grows in Cape Province
Rooibos, or redbush tea, expands into a notable industry in Cape Province South Africa. A single Wellington farm sold rooibos for as much as £6000, about $27000, highlighting its rising value and healthful image.
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Cape Province
South Africa
Wellington
Canada Reports Disease Eradications Across Livestock
The report notes that dourine in horses was eradicated in 1919, there has been no glanders case for seven years, and sheep scab has not appeared in Canada for 17 years.
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Canada
Rare German armament shipments via Spain amid war
Diplomatic accounts from the former German embassy in Madrid describe clandestine Spanish shipments to Germany including planes artillery and captured Russian guns. Negotiations in 1943 priced at about 1 billion marks with Spain providing 220 million marks worth of goods and raw materials due to Allied invasion disruptions.
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South America
Madrid
Spain
Berlin
Sofvndus
Germany
Franco
France
Wise Sayings About Bread and Cake Across History
The article traces the attribution of the phrase if the people have no bread why not eat cake to Marie Antoinette and Rousseau, noting journals may have spread the joke and comparing variants from Foullon about hay. It also comments on modern nutritionists and adds a fact that the Alaska highway is 1592 miles long.
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Marie Antoinette
Princess de Lamballe
Rousseau
Antoinette
Paris
Joseph Francois Foullon
Finance
Minneapolis Star Journal
Uganda First Canadian Warship to Round Cape Horn
Lt. Jack Patterson reports the Uganda the Royal Canadian Navy cruiser became the first Dominion warship to sail around Cape Horn during a 20 000 mile South American cruise. Two whalers were sent to film the passage as albatrosses and Cape Pigeons greeted the ship and the crew forged pictures on the legendary headland now quiet save for whales birds and seas.
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Uganda
Cape Horn
Jack Patterson
Royal Canadian Navy
Cape
South America
Valparaiso
Chile
Mainguy
Norman Keziere
Edmonton
Straits of Magellen
Panama Canal
Americas
Bowling origin linked to religious rite in cathedral cloisters
The sport of bowling began as a religious ceremony in cathedral cloisters where knocking down pins was believed to signal a clean life for the bowler.
Infra-Red Radio Telephones Used by Axis Forces Revealed
Northwestern University researchers W S Huxford and A H Nethercot Jr studied captured German lichtsprecher 250 130 and Japanese light beam telephone gear. The devices used invisible infrared beams for field comms, had ranges up to 10 miles in ideal German tests but required skilled operators and could not be mass produced. The Japanese system weighed about 150 pounds, offered about two miles range, and faced alignment limits due to a 0.1 degree beam.
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Evanstown
Northwestern University
W. S. Huxford
A. H. Nethercot Jr
Department of Physics
United States Office of Scientific Research and Development
Army
Navy
Floral embroidery patterns for towels and pillow cases
Colorful floral motifs offered for linens and accessories. Pattern 7111 provides 1% motifs 3 x 3% to 6% x 7% inches with twenty cents coin payment to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg. Include name address and pattern number. 1946 needlework book offer adds 104 illustrations and four free potholder patterns.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Florida Climate Tempered by Caribbean Sea Not Gulf Stream
A report notes that the Caribbean Sea rather than the Gulf Stream moderates Florida's climate. The statement emphasizes oceanic influences on local weather patterns and broader regional climatology.
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Florida
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